[ILUG] Fedora 5 install problems - Help Please

[Declan Moriarty]

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 07:50 +0100, Pangurban wrote:
> I have what was a trusty machine that has run Fedora Core 3 and 4 and I
> decided to upgrade to 5!!!
> 
> That did not go well!
> 
> So I did a clean install of FC 5
> 
> Now....
> 
> I have a videocard problem - as in I am detected in the install as being
> headless. Its a nVidia GeForce FX 5200 (YUM - may solve this in time)
> 
> I have a network card problem - as in eth0 is not being set up - and the
> network is therefore out of reach.
> 
> Oddly (well I think its odd) *lspci* produces no results.
> 
> GRUB is the bootmanager - installed in its default config.
> 
> *scanpci" -- Shows that it is a VIA chipset with an unboard Realtek
> network card.  It finds the video card.
> 
> "dmesg" -- ends with
> stuff about ppdev followed by
> 'audit(1147674871.023.2): avc: denied {read} for pid=1761
> comm="Networkmanager" name="ifcfg-eth0" dev=dm-0 ino=34178771 ....'
> 
> I can't append the output of either of these as I cannot get to my
> memory dongle .
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Please do not overestimate my knowledge or skill when replying.  :=)

You will need the via-rhine and some video card stuff. Battling with
FC5, you are on your own!

Battling with the via chipset, try 'cat /proc/interrupts'. The via-rhine
likes irq 11 and is not happy sharing with everything. Via APIC hardware
is broken and it will give everything one or two interrupts with half-
assed numbers. This sort of thing

irq 5 	mpu401, usb0, ttys0, ps/2
irq 10 	opl3, sb, usb1, ide0
irq 20	ide1, nic, usb2, joystick, lp0, ttys1, video

I'm not exagerating - I've had a list like that!
ide is very fussy about having irq14/15. acpi is also very hard to get
right on some chipsets. Boot with "noapic acpi=off" as boot parameters,
and see if it helps.